print lines between line number

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,

Anyone help me to print the lines from the flat file between 879th line number and 1424th line number.

The 879 and 1424 should be passed as input to the shell script(It should be dynamic).

Can any one give me using sed or awk?

I tried using read, and print the lines..Its taking too much time for bigger files.

2

Like this?

$> cat infile
eins A
zwei B
drei C
vier D
fuenf E
sechs F
sieben G
acht H
neun I
zehn J
$> read A; read B; echo '-----------'; sed -n "${A},${B}p" infile
3
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-----------
drei C
vier D
fuenf E
sechs F
sieben G
3

Any of these should work:

sed -ne "${start},${end}p" yourfile
awk "NR >= $start && NR <= $end" yourfile
perl -ne "print if $start .. $end;" yourfile
4

Hi Zaxxon and puldi
Thanks a lot...I am getting exactly same result.